{"id":4616,"date":"2009-08-20T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T20:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2009-08-20T11:31:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T20:31:53","slug":"the-truth-about-worship-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=4616","title":{"rendered":"The truth about worship services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the middle of reading a biography of James Boswell, famous for his biography of Samuel Johnson; but when I read about Boswell&#8217;s <em>London Journal<\/em>, I got distracted &#8212; went out and found a copy, and started to read it. Near the beginning of the <em>Journal<\/em>, Boswell goes to church one fine Sunday, but is distracted from the sermon by other thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Monday 29 November. I breakfasted with Mr. Douglas. I went to St. James Church and heard service and a good sermon on &#8216;By what means shall a young man learn to order his ways,&#8217; in which the advantages of early piety were well displayed. What a curious, inconsistent thing is the mind of man! In the midst of divine service I was laying plans for having women, and yet I had the most sincere feelings of religion. I imagine my want of belief is the occasion of this, so that I can have all the feeling. I would try to make out a little consistency this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Boswell is mistaken in thinking that consistency is possible for us human beings. Don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the middle of reading a biography of James Boswell, famous for his biography of Samuel Johnson; but when I read about Boswell&#8217;s London Journal, I got distracted &#8212; went out and found a copy, and started to read it. Near the beginning of the Journal, Boswell goes to church one fine Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4621,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions\/4621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}